Ibn Ṣaṣrā

by Eychenne, Mathieu

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Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ibn Ṣaṣrā (fl. late eighth/fourteenth century) was a Syrian historian, known only for his work entitled al-Durra al-muḍīʾa fī l-dawla al-Ẓāhiriyya (“The enlightening pearl, concerning the rule of al-Ẓāhir [Barqūq, r. 784–91/1382–9, 792–801/1390–9]), a late-eighth/fourteenth-century Damascene local chronicle partially preserved in a unique manuscript at the Bodleian Library in Oxford and fully edited and translated into English by William M. Brinner in 1963, accompanied by a…

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Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ibn Ṣaṣrā (fl. late eighth/fourteenth century) was a Syrian historian, known only for his work entitled al-Durra al-muḍīʾa fī l-dawla al-Ẓāhiriyya (“The enlightening pearl, concerning the rule of al-Ẓāhir [Barqūq, r. 784–91/1382–9, 792–801/1390–9]), a late-eighth/fourteenth-century Damascene local chronicle partially preserved in a unique manuscript at the Bodleian Library in Oxford and fully edited and translated into English by William M. Brinner in 1963, accompanied by a comprehensive introduction. The manuscript Laud or.

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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